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    Mayor Announces “COVID-19 Heat Wave Plan” To Protect Elderly and Vulnerable New Yorkers

    Heat Emergency Response  •  Citywide

    Providing air conditioning units to low-income families and seniors is one of the strategies the City is enacting to help New Yorkers cope with summer heat during the COVID-19 pandemic. Image Credit: CityLand

    As temperatures begin to rise and as Summer in NYC officially begins on Saturday, the City is eyeing sports and other large venues to use as cooling centers and is set to spend $55 million on air conditioners for elderly and low-income residents. On June 12, 2020, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced an update to the City’s plan to protect vulnerable New Yorkers from excessive indoor heat exposure. Now called the Get Cool NYC program, the update follows an announcement of the Covid-19 Heat Wave Plan on May 15, 2020, to outline how the City will keep New Yorkers cool during the coming summer months in the wake of Covid-19 shelter-in-place and social distancing requirements.  (read more…)

    Tags : air conditioning, Con Edison, cooling centers, coronavirus, COVID-19, summer
    Date:06/16/2020
    Category : Mayor
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    Maintaining New York City’s Trees

    Tree Maintenance  •  Citywide

    Street Trees in Brooklyn.  Image credit: thecityatlas.org

    Trees are planted right into the backdrop of New York City. While there are only about 600,000 trees in the City, many of them occupy the sidewalks and streets in front of our homes. Given the dense population of the City, apartment buildings and houses are built right on top of each other. The trees planted on City streets and sidewalks need to be cared for otherwise, they can cause damage and problems for the surrounding residents and property owners. The Department of Parks and Recreation has procedures and guidelines for the care and maintenance of City trees. (read more…)

    Tags : Con Edison, Department of Parks and Recreation, Department of Sanitation, Department of Transporation, Maintenance, Pruning, Sidewalk Trees, Street Trees, Tree Branches, Tree Roots, Work
    Date:06/28/2018
    Category : Department of Parks & Recreation
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    Master Plan for Future Adaptations to West Side Powerhouse Approved

    Certificate of Appropriateness  •  West Midtown, Manhattan

    Interborough Rapid Transit Company Powerhouse at 855 11th Avenue in Manhattan. Image Credit: LPC.

    To facilitate the continued use of the former Interborough Rapid Transit Company Powerhouse as Con Edison Steam plant, plan adopted to allow for rooftop mechanical equipment and the creation of entrances for installing equipment. On January 9, 2018, the Landmarks Preservation Commission (“Landmarks”) voted to approve a master plan presented by Consolidated Edison (“Con Edison”) for the recently designated Interborough Rapid Transit Company Powerhouse at 855 11th Avenue on Manhattan’s West Side. The block-sized Beaux-Arts building, with its exterior designed by Stanford White, was built under the influence of the City Beautiful movement, bringing classical grandeur to the civic experience. Built to provide electricity to the Interborough Rapid Transit’s subway system, the plant is now owned by Con Edison, which operates the building as a steam-generating plant.     (read more…)

    Tags : Con Edison, Fred Bland, Historic Districts Council, Interborough Rapid Transit Company Powerhouse, John Gustafsson, Manhattan Community Board 4, Mark Silberman, Meenakshi Srinivasan, Michael Devonshire
    Date:01/29/2018
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
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    EVENT Reminder: Center for New York City Law Breakfast with Errol Louis & 3rd Annual Civic Fame Awards

    CityLaw Breakfast  •  New York Law School

    The Center for New York City Law cordially invites you to a CityLaw Breakfast

    presenting

    Errol Louis
    Guest Speaker, Inside City Hall

    With a special presentation to
    Ross Sandler, ABA Section’s Lifetime Achievement Award

    ✱✱✱

    3rd Annual Civic Fame Awards

    The Center offers special recognition for:

    Hon. David N. Dinkins, the 106th Mayor of the City of New York

    Wayne G. Hawley, retiring deputy executive director and general counsel
    of the Conflicts of Interest Board

    Susan M. Hinkson ’98, retiring member of the
    Board of Standards & Appeals

    Con Edison, a founding sponsor of the CityLaw Breakfast Series

    Inside City Hall, 25th Anniversary of NY1’s nightly political news and opinion program

    ✱✱✱

    (read more…)

    Tags : CityLaw, CityLaw Breakfast, Civic Fame Award, Con Edison, David N. Dinkins, Errol Louis, Inside City Hall, Susan M. Hinkson, Wayne Hawley
    Date:04/27/2017
    Category : The Center for New York City Law
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    Past Corruption in New York City: Marcus, Tweed & Gross

    Cover Article by Ross Sandler
    Tweed Courthouse. Image credit: CityLaw

    Tweed Courthouse. Image credit: CityLaw

    New York City has a long and rich history of scandal and corruption. Here are three examples from favorite books that visit past scandals in complete and revealing detail.

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    Tags : City Comptroller, Con Edison, Harry Gross, Jerome Park Reservoir, NYPD, Tweed Courthouse
    Date:08/23/2016
    Category : CityLaw
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    Con Edison Meets Hurricane Sandy’s Challenge

    Ross Sandler

    Ross Sandler

    Every four hours around the clock, beginning Tuesday, October 30, 2012, workers from every part of Consolidated Edison’s territory reported to senior management on the status, needs and plans to restore service to Con Edison customers. The reports came in to Con Edison’s Emergency Response Center set up in the nineteenth floor auditorium at Con Edison’s headquarters at 4 Irving Place.

    The first reports were sketchy assessments: what was happening and where. As the storm receded, the terrible numbers started to come in. Midland Beach in Staten Island and Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn were devastated. A storm surge knocked out the East River steam plant, caused an explosion at Manhattan’s 13th Street transmission station, and flooded office towers on Water Street. Trees downed wires all over Westchester County, blocking roads and preventing crews from getting through. Brighton Beach was flooded. Con Edison’s Manhattan workout locations were under water, but Con Edison’s vehicles were safe; Con Edison had removed them to the high ground of Union Square 24 hours before the storm hit.

    There was steady, intense professionalism in the Emergency Response Center as the reports kept arriving. A Con Edison worker returning home from a twelve hour shift was robbed at gun point. A mutual aid crew working on a 13,000 volt overhead line failed to follow safety rules; they were sent home to North Carolina. Site safety became a concern, so Con Edison sent trained office workers to downed wire sites in the field. A gasoline shortage threatened to prevent workers from getting to work sites; tankers of gasoline were ordered. A work camp sleeping mutual aid crews was set up at Citi Field in Queens. A hush came over the Response Center when a dog was reported to have been electrocuted by a downed wire.

    Eleven days after the storm, the video display in the Response Center charted a constant increase in restorations of power. Con Edison crews had restored electricity to 1,012,316 of the 1,054,972 customers blacked out by Sandy and the following Northeaster.

    The extraordinary professionalism, preparation and dedication shown by Con Edison’s executives and by the 14,000 workers in the field were reflected in the successful restoration work. Later there will be investigations and reviews of performance as there should be. In the meantime, as this is written, the hard, house-by-house restoration work continues in the field.

    Ross Sandler

    Tags : Commentary, Con Edison, Hurricane Sandy, Ross Sandler
    Date:11/16/2012
    Category : Commentary
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